THE EFFECT OF USING PATTERN MAKER STRATEGY TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 23 PEKANBARU
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- There are some factors that affect student’s comprehension in reading, such as vocabulary mastery, motivation in reading, the interests of reading materials and boredom of reading. English teacher at SMPN 23 Pekanbaru has implemented some strategies to increase students’ reading comprehension such as the teacher taught students by giving explanation about the materials, identified and translated the difficult in material word by word. But students still felt bored in studying, especially in reading. The research was administered at SMPN 23 PEKANBARU. The subject of the research was the first year students of SMPN 23 PEKANBARU, and the object of this research was the effect of using Pattern Maker Strategy. The design of this research was quasi- experimental design. The population of this research was all of the first year students. The total number of population was 360 students. Because the number of population was large, the researcher used cluster sampling by taking two classes only as sample; class VIII G which consisted of 40 students as the experimental group, and class VIII H consisted of 40 students as the control group, so the number of sample from two classes were 80 students. To analyze the data, the researcher adopted Independent sample T-test and Paired sample T-test formula by using SPSS 16. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that there was significant Effect of Using Pattern Maker Strategy toward the Reading Comprehension at the Second Year students of SMPN 23 PEKANBARU, where tobserved shows 4.248 at significant level of 5%, ttable shows 2.01, and at level of 1%, ttable shows 2.65. Thus, Null Hypothesis (Ho) is rejected, and Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, which shows 2.00<4.248>2.65. So in conclusing that there was a significant effect of the using Pattern Maker Strategy Toward Reading Comprehension Of The Second Year Students at State Junior High School 23 Pekanbaru